Nicholas Burns Expect Quotations

We're calling for their immediate release. We are making this known privately to the Bosnian Serb military commanders, and we're now making it known privately just in the next couple of hours to President Milosevic in Belgrade, and we very much expect that this call for the immediate release of these people will be met.

We would hope these issues could be resolved before President Bush visits Kyoto in just a couple of weeks time. We expect that will be the case but there's still some remaining hard work that needs to be done.

When (Christopher) travels to the Balkans late next week and into the following week, he'll be making his point personally. And by then we expect that all prisoners will have been released.

That remains our plan. And I've been in touch with the Indian government this week. I expect to be in touch with them in the coming days, and we hope to reach that goal.

We are very clear in our administration ... this agreement has not changed. We are not adding any conditions that we expect the Indian government to meet,

We fully expect that the governments of the IAEA will exercise their responsibility,

We fully expect that the IAEA will refer this issue to the United Nations Security Council, where it should be,